Category: What Narcissistic Abuse Feels Like

I understand everything now. It feels like a grenade just went off. The shrapnel is falling, scattering, and all of the clues are flooding into the right cracks all at once, but too quickly for me to absorb each in isolation. I begged you for answers so many times. But...

I almost got away from my narcissist ex in the summer of 2015.  Everything changed in the span of two weeks starting Memorial weekend that year. My ex-boyfriend had hurt me in almost every way you can possibly hurt someone, and during those two weeks I either found out about...

Earlier this year, I had a ribcage injury involving a couple of my ribs. Thankfully, it wasn’t as serious as I thought it was going to be at first, but breathing and sleeping were pretty painful and difficult for the first couple of weeks especially and it took about six...

There was one clear moment when I knew I had been in a psychologically abusive relationship. It happened when I heard the soft *ding* coming from my phone beside me to let me know I had a text and my first instinct had been fear. The fear was not that the text...

“Why are you so beautiful?” I never knew quite what to do with it when he said that to me. How do you answer a question like that? It wasn’t something he asked me a couple of times.  It was one of his favorite compliments.  I mean, I guess it...

“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.” -Sean Spicer, Press briefing, January 21, 2017 I was lounging around on my couch in the living room that Saturday night, exhausted after a long, strange weekend in the District,...

I started this blog as a rebellion against silence. I had so much I wanted to say, and I have for a very long time.  I didn’t always know it, and what I wanted and needed to say has changed over time, based on whether I was in contact with...